Wool Coats Without a Synthetic Lining

Our answer

The ones below. Each is at least 80% wool or another animal fiber and is either unlined or lined in silk, cotton, viscose from wood or another breathable fiber. Our pick is almost always the unlined boiled or melton wool coat. The felted cloth blocks wind on its own, nothing synthetic sits against your clothes, and there is no lining to tear or sag years before the wool gives out.

A wool coat with a polyester lining is warm on the outside and clammy on the inside. The lining is the part that touches you, and it is the part most product pages bury. Every coat and jacket here is at least 80% wool or another animal fiber, and is either unlined or lined in a natural fiber.

Unlined is not a compromise. Boiled and melton wools are felted dense enough to block wind on their own, which is why a good coat often needs no lining at all.